Where words fail

music speaks

Alexandra Schladebeck@alex_schl

Huib Schoots

@huibschoots

Music is

Everywhere

Music is

Important

Music is

Social

Music is

Learning

Music is

Individual

Music is

Complex

Our Goal

Take you on a journey,

through music and with music,

to illustrate some things

relevant to agile and

testing

I find your

lack of

singing

disturbing

Rose Red

Rose rose rose red

Will I ever see thee wed

I will marry at thy will

At thy will sire

Rose rose rose red

Will I ever see thee wed

I will marry at thy will

At thy will sire

Music and learning

Instant feedback

Reduce complexity to practice

Learn fundamentals (own them)

Muscle memory

You don’t practice from front to back

Music and learning

Instant feedback

Reduce complexity to practice

Learn fundamentals (own them)

Muscle memory

You don’t practice from front to back

Music & communication

Let’s do a simple experiment…

Close your eyes & listen

What do you hear?

What do you think of?

Music & agile teams

Sometimes you’re the triangle

player

Music teams and their contexts…

Solo

Trios/Quartets

Bands

Orchestra

Session

Music & agile teams

Session heuristic

Heuristics

STARStructure

Tune

Accompaniment

Rhythm

SFDIPOTStructure

Function

Data

Interface

Platform

Operation

Time

Compare

Context of notesE-Note

E Major Scale

G Major Scale

CadencesAuthentic cadence

Deceptive cadence

CadencesAuthentic cadence

Deceptive cadence

CadencesAuthentic cadence

Deceptive cadence

End of sprint…

Music & testing

Exploratory testing & music

Scripting versus improvisation

Communication over documentation

Standards & music

Experiments: outcome is unsure

Non-deterministic & non-reproducible

Models

Heuristics and patterns

Heuristics

…are fallible

Music & testing

Same piece of music needs to adapt

to situation…

If you have the skills you can do

it (and it looks so easy)

Now listen to this!

Lessons

Learn your team’s tune

Finish your sprints on a good

cadence

Recognize your role + context

Practice + Patterns + Adapting =

Star!

Thank you!

ReferencesHow to Be a Professional Triangle Player: http://goo.gl/7y9bcI

Testing and Music: Parallels in Practice, Skills, and Learning

http://www.developsense.com/presentations/2008-06-TestingAndMusic.pdf

Cadences: http://goo.gl/DtEoEt

Heuristics (4 chords): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOSs38wVnD4

List of 4 chord songs: http://goo.gl/mGCp0V

How to write a song: http://goo.gl/CoaBzC

Madonna:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqIIW7nxBgc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KQiPumzHNA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbDbBal53ig

Ray Charles: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyVuYAHiZb8

Star Wars Music by John Williams

James Bond Theme by Monty Norman

All about that Bass, Meghan Trainor

Other music traditional, arr. Alex Schladebeck

Alexandra Schladebeck@alex_schl

Alexandra.Schladebeck@bredex.de

http://www.schladebeck.de

Huib Schoots@huibschoots

Huib.Schoots@improveqs.nl

http://www.huibschoots.nl